Shrimp Festival King Shane LeBlanc and Queen Caroline Porter walk with other festival royalty during the Blessing of the Fleet yesterday morning as part of the Shrimp Festival in Delcambre.

Written by

Jean-Paul Fonte
jfonte2@gannett.com

In a scene that could evoke images of the Gospel being preached from a boat on the Sea of Galilee, hundreds of people clustered around a shrimping boat Sunday as a priest blessed the crowd, the boats and their operators and the waters of Bayou Carlin as part of the last day of the Delcambre Shrimp Festival.

The Rev. Nathan Comeaux called on the intercession of St. Andrew the Apostle, the patron saint of fishermen, as he sprinkled holy water upon those present.

This blessing couldn't come soon enough, said Monica Delcambre, as shrimping season began a week ago today. ...